Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point of incomprehensibility by at least eleven squabbling factions that range from Maoist to moderate social democrats. Moreover, the left is virtually as leaderless as it is splintered. The left's old hero, Juan Bosch, whom Balaguer defeated for the presidency in 1966, remains in voluntary exile in Spain. Similarly, another potential leader, Francisco Caamaño Deó, 37, who was the military commander of the anti-establishment "Constitutionalists" during the 1965 civil war, is reportedly holed up in Cuba or The Netherlands. Balaguer also will have opposition within his own middle-of-the-road Reformista Party, which...
...Benefits. Today there are nearly 100 Americans playing for industrial teams and sports clubs in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium. The influx began five years ago, when sponsors, anxious to upgrade the sloppy play and win new friends and publicity for their teams, started recruiting U.S. college stars. Though the leagues imposed a limit of two foreigners for each team, the Americans have dominated the play. The imports have not only helped bring about a basketball boom in Western Europe, but have also ended the lopsided superiority of teams from Iron Curtain countries. The New York Knicks' Bill Bradley...
...political reasons or anything like that," says Brabender. "But I like the life here and have lots of friends." More typical of the U.S. players abroad is Brabender's teammate, Miles Aiken, 27, a center from St. Bonaventure. He regards his sojourn in sunny Spain as an interesting but temporary cultural adventure, and plans to return to the U.S. to work in the poverty program...
...with almost $3,500,000 in advertising. The 17 Playboy Clubs and the Playboy resort hotels in Jamaica and Lake Geneva, Wis., have been so successful that plans are in the works for at least three new clubs, plus resorts in New Jersey, Nevada, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Mexico and Spain. Hefner's empire earned him and his very few fellow stockholders $6,868,165 last year, after taxes. But for all his alchemistic talent, Hefner's enthusiasm for business seems to be waning. "When a man is in his 40s," he says, "he realizes that there are only...
Even in Mia's childhood, moviemaking was a global business. The nine Farrows trooped from Los Angeles to Spain, then on to London, where a series of tragedies began. "You can't be Irish without knowing the world is going to break your heart before you're 40," goes the Gaelic lament. For Mia the time was halved. Although the Farrow family life was chaotic and neurotic, there were still close alliances within its framework. In London at '13, she learned that her brother Michael, with whom she had been closest, had been killed in a private-plane crash...